Emphysematous cholecystitis in a patient with porcelain gallbladder

Our case uniquely presents a patient with two rare gallbladder disease entities occurring simultaneously. The patient presented to hospital with abdominal pain and was subsequently diagnosed with emphysematous cholecystitis and porcelain gallbladder. After initial conservative management failed, cho...

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Autores principales: Vera, Vithya, Sharma, Abhimanyu, Townson, Adam T, Azeem, Qasim, Malam, Yogeshkumar, Mathews, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9844958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36685122
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac600
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author Vera, Vithya
Sharma, Abhimanyu
Townson, Adam T
Azeem, Qasim
Malam, Yogeshkumar
Mathews, John
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Townson, Adam T
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description Our case uniquely presents a patient with two rare gallbladder disease entities occurring simultaneously. The patient presented to hospital with abdominal pain and was subsequently diagnosed with emphysematous cholecystitis and porcelain gallbladder. After initial conservative management failed, cholecystectomy was performed, and the patient recovered well post-operatively and was discharged home.
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spelling pubmed-98449582023-01-19 Emphysematous cholecystitis in a patient with porcelain gallbladder Vera, Vithya Sharma, Abhimanyu Townson, Adam T Azeem, Qasim Malam, Yogeshkumar Mathews, John J Surg Case Rep Case Report Our case uniquely presents a patient with two rare gallbladder disease entities occurring simultaneously. The patient presented to hospital with abdominal pain and was subsequently diagnosed with emphysematous cholecystitis and porcelain gallbladder. After initial conservative management failed, cholecystectomy was performed, and the patient recovered well post-operatively and was discharged home. Oxford University Press 2023-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9844958/ /pubmed/36685122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac600 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2023. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Azeem, Qasim
Malam, Yogeshkumar
Mathews, John
Emphysematous cholecystitis in a patient with porcelain gallbladder
title Emphysematous cholecystitis in a patient with porcelain gallbladder
title_full Emphysematous cholecystitis in a patient with porcelain gallbladder
title_fullStr Emphysematous cholecystitis in a patient with porcelain gallbladder
title_full_unstemmed Emphysematous cholecystitis in a patient with porcelain gallbladder
title_short Emphysematous cholecystitis in a patient with porcelain gallbladder
title_sort emphysematous cholecystitis in a patient with porcelain gallbladder
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9844958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36685122
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac600
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